AI usage is booming. What does AI use? It uses energy. AI is a notable energy hog, so the local utility company was the ...

Getting antsy about the midterms? Wondering whether oil will ever come back down? Afraid the AI bubble is going to pop, blowing a dotcom-sized hole into your retirement portfolio? I’m not. Because ...

There are hundreds of closed-end funds (CEFs) out there, and almost all of them have an investor they’re perfect for. I say “almost” because there are a few that are, in my view, not appropriate for ...

The market has served us up a tidy opportunity on a closed-end fund (CEF) yielding an eye-popping 13.1%. What’s more, this fund is oversold, at a 12.1% discount to net asset value (NAV). Before I name ...

We love it when a stock “pays us back” in dividends. The faster, the better! Most people don’t get this luxury. They’re stuck “grinding it out” with the S&P 500’s 1% payers. Not us. We’re hunting for ...

We’ve got an early start to the year-end tax-loss selling season to thank for this opportunity. Forget Year-End: The Best Dividend Deals Are Right Now Our play starts with the fact that CEFs are a ...

When the world is burning—as it feels like it is now—it pays to remember the words of Howard Marks, the smartest money manager most people have never heard of. The essence of Marks’s approach is ...

I’d like to share my simple “Made for 2025” Dividend Plan with you. It’s a simple, safe strategy that identifies dividend stocks with payouts set to surge higher. As these divvies pop, so do their ...

Stock pundits have dogged first-level investors with this false dilemma for decades. They love to sort the world into neat piles for their hot takes, and they’ve decided that companies can either pay ...

Some of our favorite high-yield dividends just did something stunning: They sent their investors’ payouts soaring—in some cases by more than 30% overnight. All of these high-paying dividend growers ...

Stocks are sky-high, but us contrarians are looking for dividend deals. And we found them in one forgotten corner of the Wall Street world. Here, we’re going to bank yields between 11% and 13%. That’s ...

It’s September—traditionally the weakest month for stocks—and we contrarians are responding. We’ve got the (ugh!) midterms coming up. Tariff unpredictability has returned. And scorching long-term bond ...